João Florêncio
@noisybits.bsky.social
Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social.
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social.
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Once upon a time when UK Universities were cool.
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Once upon a time when UK Universities were cool.
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
(Report from Mr Leather Europe 1997, and ECMC annual general meeting in Manchester. Projet X, No. 23, Paris, October 1997)
Today’s a great day to dance to one of my favourite tracks!
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today’s a great day to dance to one of my favourite tracks!
Gems from the archive for “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Gems from the archive for “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000.”
What do a cybernetics researcher, a feminist robotics researcher, and a sexuality researcher do on a Saturday night in linköping, you ask?
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
What do a cybernetics researcher, a feminist robotics researcher, and a sexuality researcher do on a Saturday night in linköping, you ask?
Hi. What’s up? Horny? 😈👀
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hi. What’s up? Horny? 😈👀
It’s Halloween, so tonight I’m hosting a moose séance innit
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s Halloween, so tonight I’m hosting a moose séance innit
Apparently I’m on the walls of Kunstverein in Hamburg.
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently I’m on the walls of Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Darling hold my hand—I’m at Bristol airport, there are at least TWO hen dos and people are downing G&Ts at 7am.
October 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Darling hold my hand—I’m at Bristol airport, there are at least TWO hen dos and people are downing G&Ts at 7am.
Being stuck in England ain’t that bad when your old @ucu.org.uk comrade @profalexp.bsky.social invites you to dinner and you drink and talk politics, HE, and raving in the ‘90s 🥰🥰
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Being stuck in England ain’t that bad when your old @ucu.org.uk comrade @profalexp.bsky.social invites you to dinner and you drink and talk politics, HE, and raving in the ‘90s 🥰🥰
Hello. My flight back to Linköping got cancelled due to strong winds at Schiphol. I’m stuck in England. How was it for you?
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Hello. My flight back to Linköping got cancelled due to strong winds at Schiphol. I’m stuck in England. How was it for you?
Guys, I’ve just landed on TERF Island 😭
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Guys, I’ve just landed on TERF Island 😭
It’s sad that I seem to remain Charlotte Gill’s only trick. It’s been years, girl, you could have learnt—I dunno—to juggle.
October 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It’s sad that I seem to remain Charlotte Gill’s only trick. It’s been years, girl, you could have learnt—I dunno—to juggle.
Bittersweet celebration of Mac Folkes’s life at the Schwules Museum, longing for a Berlin that is fast disappearing
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Bittersweet celebration of Mac Folkes’s life at the Schwules Museum, longing for a Berlin that is fast disappearing
Came to @hkw-berlin.bsky.social to see the Global Fascisms exhibition, bought this book I’ve been wanting to read for ages. 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Came to @hkw-berlin.bsky.social to see the Global Fascisms exhibition, bought this book I’ve been wanting to read for ages. 🖤
Also, like, if your knowledge of media theory is so crass that you completely miss the point McLuhan was trying to make (by legit arguing its opposite), perhaps you shouldn’t be volunteering your twopence on media culture. (Also the IGNORANCE on the history of “pornography” as a classificatory term)
October 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Also, like, if your knowledge of media theory is so crass that you completely miss the point McLuhan was trying to make (by legit arguing its opposite), perhaps you shouldn’t be volunteering your twopence on media culture. (Also the IGNORANCE on the history of “pornography” as a classificatory term)
There’s a new book on sex robots by a UK-based radfem philosopher prof., with endorsements by both Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel. obvs, this fag ordered an exam copy because he loves mess and, let me Itell you, my jaw is on the floor at how basic and boringly unoriginal the argument is.
October 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
There’s a new book on sex robots by a UK-based radfem philosopher prof., with endorsements by both Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel. obvs, this fag ordered an exam copy because he loves mess and, let me Itell you, my jaw is on the floor at how basic and boringly unoriginal the argument is.
Moral of the story, my brothers: sex sells. And consciousness rising goes a lot further when riding the D.
October 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Moral of the story, my brothers: sex sells. And consciousness rising goes a lot further when riding the D.
But neither the twinks nor the photos by Italian star of homoerotic photography Tony Patrioli (with whom Holm had contact) managed to reverse the decline of Magasin Gay, leading to its eventual closure in 1984, only one year after its first issue.
October 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
But neither the twinks nor the photos by Italian star of homoerotic photography Tony Patrioli (with whom Holm had contact) managed to reverse the decline of Magasin Gay, leading to its eventual closure in 1984, only one year after its first issue.